Head of Yakutia Yegor Borisov resigned ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )Rumors about the imminent dismissal of the regional Head spread after the election of the Russian President. According to some reports, the Kremlin ...

Russia: Fire Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) DREF nÂ° MDRRU022 ( ReliefWeb )... Ingushetia, Buryatia and the Ryazan region, as well as the mayors of Yekaterinburg and Yakutsk, Eugene Roizman and Aisen Nikolaev, in solidarity with Kemerovo, announced mourning as well. On 27 March, the president of theRussian Federation declared 28 March a day of all-Russian mourning.

03/20/2018 21:55

Vladimir Putin secures record win in Russian presidential election ( The Guardian )Senior Russian officials have said that Vladimir Putin's decisive win in the presidential elections reflects popular support for his muscular foreign policy and would ... In one video shared online from the Siberian region of Yakutia, voters patiently queued behind a man shoving ballots into the ballot box.

03/20/2018 05:50

Pussy Riot protest against Putin election with new song ( The Guardian )Russian political punk group Pussy Riot have released a new song, Elections, to protest against â18 years of Putin's powerâ as Russians headed to the polls .... Alyokhina was detained in August 2017 in the Siberian city of Yakutsk following a protest she made with another Pussy Riot member against the ...

03/18/2018 21:55

Presidential election kicks off in Russia ( TASS )MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. Russia's presidential election has begun in the Far East. Residents of the country's easternmost regions - Kamchatka and Chukotka - are the first to cast their votes. Eighty-five Russian regions cover eleven time zones. While it is still Saturday night in most Russian regions, ...

02/13/2018 14:35

Even the eyelashes freeze: Russia sees minus 88.6 degrees F ( WPXI Pittsburgh )But the press office for Yakutia's governor said Tuesday that all households and businesses in the region have working central heating and access to backup power generators. Residents of Yakutia are no strangers to cold weather and this week's cold spell was not even dominating local news ...

01/31/2018 02:30

Navalny freed after thousands rally against Putin ( The Nation )Earlier in the day opposition supporters protested in far eastern Russia and Siberia, including in the northern city of Yakutsk where people rallied despite temperatures of around minus 45 Celsius (minus 49 Fahrenheit). In the Ural city of Yekaterinburg around 1,000 people turned up, with the city's mayor ...

Russian opposition begins nationwide protest, calls for election boycott ( Times of Oman )Supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attend a rally for a boycott of a March 18 presidential election in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, ... "Putin is gobbling up Russia's future," read another. Other protests took place in Novosibirsk, Kurgan, Omsk, Magadan, Kemerovo and Yakutsk.

01/26/2018 16:00

Russia's Yakutia begins making semi-finished reindeer meat products ( TASS )The products are of high demand throughout Yakutia," he said, adding the company would also export the products to other regions. With the state support from the federal and regional authorities, the company now has two abattoirs in the republic's two districts, which are biggest reindeer breeding ...

01/23/2018 22:25

Russia and the North: who is feeding whom? ( www.MICEtimes.asia (press release) )Posted on the website of the state Assembly of Yakutia the material in which it was claimed that Russia lives at the expense of the North, became the reason for heated discussions not only in the Republic but also abroad. The text with the controversial statement from the website of the regional ...